Rebirth in America

Ark company is having a sales meeting!

In addition to the Eight Rebels, there were also people from other departments of Ark Company attending the meeting.

In addition, there was a special person present at the meeting, that is the real boss of this company! Alex!

Everyone turned their attention to Noyce who was speaking. He looked high-spirited. Although he had a few white hairs on his head, he was in a very good mood.

Noyce held a piece of data in his hand and described it to people in other departments. As the boss of the sales department, he built akr company's sales channels in less than half a year. This is a reflection of his working ability and the result of hard work.

"Based on the sales of the machines we launched, the market demand for our products is very large!" Noyce cited several examples and figures to prove his statement.

After a series of boring data, Noyce summarized his statement!

"These are return surveys from individual users. We can see how satisfied they are with our products!"

Finally, Noyce paused briefly, waiting for other questions.

Sure enough, someone immediately asked: "From this data, can we draw a conclusion that the market potential of this machine is still great, and we need to speed up the production of more products?"

"Indeed!" Noyce nodded in agreement.

Others also nodded secretly. Judging from the sales data of the past six months, although Ark's products have not been heavily promoted, and no one has sold the machine before, the demand for it from customers is indeed as high as dry powder. The firewood and fire started to burn at once.

Even when many companies are waiting and watching, and only IBM is following up alone, people still only choose AKR's products. After all, the original plan given by Alex was a complete and mature thing, and the machine produced by Ark Company was completely enclosed, which made it difficult for other companies to successfully imitate it!

Even if the AKR machine is completely disassembled, the key technologies cannot be found. Thereby cracking it out.

What can be said is that their machines can fully reach the level of later generations in the late 1970s, and even far exceed them in terms of functional applications. It is already a very mature product, and many people are immediately attracted by its uses after getting it.

When later generations of machines were first launched, even Gang Leader Qiao didn't quite understand what they could be used for. Only through constant exploration could the product be perfected step by step.

With Alex's mature design. After realizing audio, video, word processing, office software and other functions, the software and hardware are completely improved. Only then can we truly satisfy users.

At the meeting, everyone spoke one after another, all expressing the same idea, that is, to increase the production line, so that akr's products can quickly occupy this hungry market.

Usually, this decision can be made internally. It's different now. Alex attended the meeting, so his opinion is very important.

Everyone looked at Alex, wanting to see what he would decide. They are not too worried because the market data is very good.

in this case. As long as the brain is not burned out, people will make reasonable decisions.

But what they still didn't expect was that Alex's first words were not about increasing the production line, but said: "We need to make the software department independent!"

Software department? That's not important!

Many people think this way in their hearts, and some people already show it on their faces. Even Maul said: "Why?"

Yes, why! The most profitable thing now is to buy hardware. As for software and so on, it may be important, but it is just a foil.

In the era of mainframe computers, when computer companies sold machines, they also provided some software gift services based on customer needs. They have a dedicated after-sales service department, and some personnel are dedicated to designing special software for customers.

Similarly, those customers also have dedicated software engineers, and their daily job is to write programs to help realize the company's needs.

In this respect, Ark's machines are somewhat different. All the software they use is made by themselves. This is a closed vertical architecture model, which means that the hardware and software of the machine are completely closed. Once there are signs of disassembly, Ark has the right to refuse to provide after-sales service for this machine.

And their users are individual users, not companies. They have little knowledge of hardware and software, let alone writing programs, but they are very satisfied with this kind of service.

From the perspective of the people at Ark, what they mainly sell is the machine itself. As for the software, that is not important. As long as there is software that can make the machine run and can be used by users, it will be fine. This concept has not been able to change for a while.

Originally, Alex wanted to wait for Noyce and others to propose it themselves, but after so much time, they still did not see them establishing an independent software department.

At this time, he realized that Noyce and others still had their own limitations after all. In terms of hardware, no one could beat them! But for the software, if there was no demand he originally proposed, they might not have thought of it themselves.

"Yes! The software department!" After Alex finished speaking, he looked around at everyone and added: "My plan is that this department will become a company on its own within a year!"

Wow!

Is this, is it necessary to choose the leader among us?

A new department or a new company means more positions and power! This is equivalent to the earth-splitting feudal lord in feudal society, giving everyone here a new head start.

When everyone was waiting for Alex to continue, he changed the topic: "However, we can decide on increasing the production line first! Noyce, I will teach you to be responsible for this... "

Everyone was stunned after hearing this. Noyce was in charge of the sales department, why was he suddenly in charge of production?

Just when Noyce was about to say something, he suddenly remembered what Alex had said before. When he took over the responsibility of the sales department, Alex clearly told him that if he could do well, there would be better room for development!

really. Alex announced in public: "Noyce has performed well during this period, and I believe everyone has seen it. I plan to set up a subsidiary under Ark, which will be responsible for the design and production of machines!"

This sentence was even more shocking than the software company just now. Everyone was stunned, even Noyce himself was stunned.

This is amazing. Now Ark Company has only one product in hand, and Noyce immediately picked it up. So what do everyone else do? Are you going to drink the northwest wind?

The key is. If the machine is gone, what else can Ark do?

soon. Alex made this issue clear: "You may be thinking that if ark loses its machine, there will be nothing to do! This is wrong!"

"When we first established ark, we didn't just want to build a small machine, we wanted to involve all semiconductor-related components! This is the real goal and development direction of ark!"

Alex didn't wait for others to ask, and continued: "ARK company is equivalent to a headquarters, it is the core of all software and hardware companies! And what is the core of technology? That is technology research and development! In other words, ark Focus on R\u0026D!”

These words made those who were involved in R\u0026D nod in agreement. Naturally, they would not forget their original purpose of joining Ark Company. They really want to change the world through their own efforts!

Next, Alex made a series of dazzling appointments. Let them set up their own departments to conduct research on integrated circuit boards, picture tubes, electronic components, etc. All in all, these eight young people have their own good places.

"Does this require a lot of funds?" someone asked.

"Don't worry, we have sufficient funds now, and the insufficient part can be continued to be injected!" Alex replied, and now the Carpenter family has emerged from the crisis. The capital chain continues to flow smoothly. In the absence of external worries, now is the best time to take advantage of opportunities and develop.

In fact, Alex wanted to turn Ark Company into an organization like Bell Labs, but due to some mistake, he had to push out the machine first and built this structure in a hurry. However, it is good to do this. At least relatively speaking, the connection between R\u0026D, production and sales is relatively close, and it is more in line with commercialization.

After the hardware arrangements are made, Alex will arrange for someone to set up a software company. In fact, he is very optimistic about one person, and that is the Chinese genius Wang An!

The rise of Wang An is like a second-rate novel about genius. But when he touched the interests of a giant like IBM, a series of bad luck struck him. First, Wang An became terminally ill, and then when the company's profits dropped by half, the stock price plummeted, leading to a series of reactions that pushed the company to the edge of bankruptcy.

At this time, Wang An Company, with annual sales of 3 billion, could not get investment from banks and other companies. In this way, without the help of external funds, Wang An's company, whose capital chain was cut off, went bankrupt.

A discerning person will see that there is something very fishy in it. Logically speaking, no matter how bad things were for Wang An Company, it would not go bankrupt due to declining profits. In fact, Wang An Company could still be saved at that time. It just died of thirst after missing a sip of water!

Now that Alex thinks about it, Wang An must have hit an invisible ceiling, offended other people's interests, and then been besieged. Otherwise, we will not be able to borrow money, we will not be able to get loans, we will not be able to even invest, and we will go bankrupt.

As early as when cpt company launched the "first generation" computer, Alex approached Wang An. He wanted Wang Anlai to be in charge of a research and development department, also related to computer research.

Although he didn't go out personally, he sent someone to contact them. He thought Wang An would probably not come.

At that time, Wang An had just sold his "magnetic core memory" patent to IBM. It is said that Wang An had no choice but to sell it after being half forced and half persuaded. He received $500,000 and sold the patent completely at once.

After Wang An received the money, he did not live in comfort. Instead, he invested all the $500,000 in research work. He had his own Wang An laboratory.

When CPT extended an olive branch, Wang An refused. He said that he did not like to go to big companies, especially he had an indescribable dislike for big companies like IBM.

At that time, UU Reading www.uukanshu.net Alex had already found Seymour Clay. He felt that if Wang An cooperated with Seymour, many problems might arise.

Wang An is quite a dictatorial person! This is one of the things that does more good than harm in a startup when the dictator has vision and ambition.

This is why Alex wants to invite Wang An over, he needs Wang An's drive and talent! So far, Alex has not found a suitable candidate. After all, real software companies only emerged in the early 1980s. The software talents of that era were still little kids, not even born yet.

Of course, there are some people who have the ability to do this. For example, Seymour Clay is very good at programming. The programs he writes are basically bug-free! But he was only interested in developing the fastest computer and didn't think much about software.

Alex also considered promoting within ark, but after observing, he found that these people still lacked Wang An's entrepreneurial spirit.

So he decided to check with Wang An first. If that didn't work, he would look for candidates among ark's software engineers.